Camera Vibration Ex Shake Appled To Camera In Maya 8

[user_deleted]

I have a point of view shot ( from a CGI Canberra Bomber) racing very low over a desert environment in Maya towards a nuclear blast crater.

I have found some actual combat footage from World War 2 of an aircraft on a low strafing run(public archive) I have used the stabilise node in SHAKE to extract the camera vibrate pan and tilt.

Naturally this is highly realistic better than what I can achieve noodling with my camera in Maya. It has high frequency vibration as well as a wander that is hard to replicate.

Can some genius Shake / Maya person out there suggest how best to export the camera vibration data from SHAKE and apply it to my Maya camera.

This will give me proper inframe motion blur etc and when the camer a wanders I will still be looking at environment and not off the edge of a comp.

cheers

=:+) stinkinmink

[user_deleted]

hmm, dont you need a 3D tracker (like monet) for this sort of stuff?
dont have any experience with any of this, but it seems hard to make it really realistic with a normal 2D track.
++ chris

[user_deleted]

QUOTE(zem @ 03/03/07, 11:51 PM) [snapback]261366[/snapback]
hmm, dont you need a 3D tracker (like monet) for this sort of stuff?
dont have any experience with any of this, but it seems hard to make it really realistic with a normal 2D track.
++ chris

I have used the stablise node to extract camer a vibration in real aerial shots previously and applied to my comps using 3d elements and it looks great . It would be even better if icouldtake that data back through to the maya camera.

I suppose i could do it with maya live if worse comes to worse. But I am hopefull there is a shake back to maya path.

[user_deleted]

a similair question just came up on the mailing list...

apparently PF Match is worth a try:
http://www.thepixelfarm.co.uk/products/products.aspx?PID=4

++ c.

[deke-kincaid]

Probably the same guy that asked the question on the listserve, but Ill answer it again just in case.

http://www.highend3d.com/shake/downloads/m...orter-3027.html

[joojaa]

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I have used the stablise node to extract camer a vibration in real aerial shots previously and applied to my comps using 3d elements and it looks great . It would be even better if icouldtake that data back through to the maya camera.

Well thing is the track you made has 3 axis freedoms, a real 3d cam has 6 axises of freedom. Itll work bt wont be as good as true 6.

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I suppose i could do it with maya live if worse comes to worse. But I am hopefull there is a shake back to maya path.

Well thatway youd get the 6 axises, or well something close to it anyway.

[user_deleted]

QUOTE(Joojaa @ 03/05/07, 09:06 PM) [snapback]261493[/snapback]
Well thing is the track you made has 3 axis freedoms, a real 3d cam has 6 axises of freedom.

Well I am just using a single point (2d track) stabilize node in SHAKE so I have x & y axis's only. But that's fine I like the effect I am getting from the live action reference footage.

The main movement in maya comes from the camera travelling low in a forward direction over the 3d terrain. If I add the x& y vibration from SHAKE it will look terrific.

I did find this link on the net,

http://www.brainfaucet.com/funarticle.php?Article=9

but dont quite understand where it gets pasted in maya or how you generate mel script out of the info...

[user_deleted]

QUOTE(stinkinmink @ 03/05/07, 08:22 AM) [snapback]261511[/snapback]
but dont quite understand where it gets pasted in maya or how you generate mel script out of the info...

It was pretty clear from the comments in his script:
"Copy the generated code and go to Maya. Select the object you want to keyframe, paste and execute the code in the [Maya] script editor."

The output of the web page is a MEL script.

Please post a link to the final shot somewhere, I'd be interested in seeing the results.

[user_deleted]

hmm, if you're only using a one point track, what's the difference between using it in maya vs just comping the shot in shake with moton blur?
sorry if that's a silly questin, never worked with maya.
++ chris

[joojaa]

Well if you render a slightly larger image plate then only difference would be parallax. (especially since it has no tilt), but thing is parallax would diminish the effect of the track looking good. Because the tilt would play more role for the true 3d data espacialy if its far away

[deke-kincaid]

I posted a link to the shake > maya exporter above. It does everything you need.